A poesia de Jim Capaldi

Atualizado em 07 Apr 2002
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POESIA

 

EVE

Eve, there's a woman in your eyes. O Eve you made me realize.
Eve give me a smile. O O O Eve you're only a child.
But it's making me turn my head all the time.
Cause looking at your face is like seeing the sunshine.

Eve I'll never let you down. O Eve I'll always be around
And it's making me turn my head all the time.
Cause looking at your face is like seeing the sunshine.
Eve give me a smile. O Eve you're only a child.


SHORT CUT DRAW BLOOD

Well you can build a lot of buildings that you want in this world,
till a man can't see a thing.
Keep on spraying the crops with your suicide juice,
till the birds no longer sing.
Speeding up the production line of automobiles
and make a profit,
that the labour won't bring.

Chorus:
But I'm telling you that a short cut is gonna draw blood
'Cause I'm tellin' you that a short cut is gonna draw blood
And your gonna get your face pushed in the mud.

Well you can build all the aeroplanes
and the bombs that you want.
but you know it don't scare me.
You can build a brick wall around the entire population,
and try and tell them that they're free.
And you keep on drilling for your precious oil,
until you even mess up the sea.

Chorus:
But I'm telling you that a short cut is gonna draw blood
'Cause I'm tellin' you that a short cut is gonna draw blood
And your gonna get your face pushed in the mud.

Well you been wheelin' and dealin' like a man with ten arms,
just to keep your lifestyle grand.
You been puttin' on pressure and squeezin' the earth,
like a snake with an iron hand.
You got to kill off every Indian in the jungle that's living,
and take away their land.

Chorus:
But I'm telling you that a short cut is gonna draw blood
'Cause I'm tellin' you that a short cut is gonna draw blood
And your gonna get your face pushed in the mud.

Well you keep on spewing out your dirt and your filth,
till the earth begins to choke.
Keep on playing your stupid games
with your dagger and your cloak.
But you won't get me workin' in your factory,
because I thrown away the yoke.

Chorus:
But I'm telling you that a short cut is gonna draw blood
'Cause I'm tellin' you that a short cut is gonna draw blood
And your gonna get your face pushed in the mud.

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VOICES IN THE NIGHT
(M. Leeson/P. Vale/M. Waters)

Wrote your name so deep in my heart.
They can't rub it out with this pain.
Along the walls where the prisoner walks.
There's a vision of live running free.
We must keep traveling this long road baby.
We must keep holding back the tears.

Who are the voices in the night?
Keep me believing you belong to me yeah.
Who are the voices in the night?
Telling me to hold on hold on to our dream.

There's no frontiers no man made lines,
That two people in love recognize.
The cold wind blows, but it won't touch my soul,
while the fire of truth burns inside.
We must keep traveling this long road baby
Through every aching hour of need.

Who are the voices in the night?
Keep me believing you belong to me yeah.
Who are the voices in the night?
Telling me to hold on hold on to our dream.

I can feel you watching over me.
Telling me you've been here before.
So many lives have changed this world.
Through suffering for what you believe.
Oh yeah keep on holding on.
Who are the voices in the night?
Keep on calling me.
We must keep traveling this long road baby.
We must keep holding back the tears.

Who are the voices in the night?
Keep me believing you belong to me yeah.
Who are the voices in the night?
Telling me to hold on hold on to our dream.
Who are the voices in the night?
Keep me believing you belong to me yeah.
Who are the voices in the night?
Telling me to hold on hold on to our dreams.
Keep on holding on.

Don't forget just who you are.
Time alone can heal the scars.
Don't turn your back on what you feel.
Love will win your heart will heal.
Don't turn your back on what we are.

Touch me baby from afar.
Don't turn your back on what you know.
Time alone will only show.
Exile is the place you'll find.
Voices that make up your mind.
Words of wisdom in the night.
Speak the truth of Human right.
One day I'll be one with you.
Freedom's spirit helps us through.
Hero's views of history.
Give us hope and set us free.
Don't turn your back on what your are.
Don't turn your back on what your are.
Don't turn your back on what your are
Touch me baby from afar.
Don't turn you back on what your are.
Don't turn you back on what your are.
Don't turn you back on what your are

Time alone will heal the scar.
Don't turn your back on what you are.
Don't turn your back on what your are.

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ANNA JULIA
(M. Camelo/J. Capaldi)

Can’t you hear that lonely symphony
It’s playing just for me
It's the same old misery
Trying to bring me down
and I just wanna cry out loud
and tell you how I feel
Seeing your face in every crowd
is making my heart beat harder.
For the chance to be near you
and whenever I see you
and there’s nothing can hold me down.

Oh Anna Julia
Oh Anna Julia

All the guys that follow you around
are trying to catch your eye
They just think that I’m a clown
I’m crazy to even try
But when I see you on the street
My whole world starts to change
Then the blood beneath my feet
starts burning me up like a fire
and I feel like I’m falling
That’s when I hear you calling
Hold my breath and look around.

Oh Anna Julia
Oh Anna Julia

Pray for the day when your love sets me free
People say there’s no way
that your love’s not for me
But there’ll come a day
When I tell you all that I feel
and they’ll stand and watch
while you walk away with me

Oh Anna Julia
Oh Anna Julia
Oh Anna Julia
Oh Anna Julia, Julia, Julia

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LIVIN' ON A MARBLE
1984 be a good year, but it won't be so good for you and me.
They've already got us surrounded.
There's nothin' but disharmony.
You don't realize they got you categorized.
So subtle it can't be detected.
They got a chain around your brain,
and you might as well be lame.
It's too late you're already infected.
Universal love can be a good thing.
Everybody stays on their own soil.
But until everybody tries to get together,
that's when the blood begins to boil.
Birds of a feather will always flock together,
don't matter what the situation.
But when they tried to build the Tower of Babel.
It turned out to be God's damnation
It turned out to be God's damnation
It turned out to be God's damnation
Chorus:
Although a man has walked in space,
sent a rocket up to the moon.
We're still no nearer to the stars.
In fact we're running out of room.
Destruction is a black crossroads, born out of a politician's hand.
This government speaks about freedom.
They bring back the destruction to the land.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely,
when we need decentralization.
Cut down the power and you'll cut down the size.
That's our only salvation.
Chorus:
Although a man has walked in space,
sent a rocket up to the moon.
We're still no nearer to the stars.
In fact we're running out of room.
Living on a marble.
We're living on a marble.
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I'LL ALLWAY´S BE YOUR FOOL
I trusted you for a long time
But You were out there running round
I didn't know until this moment
That I was just another clown
Everybody said you were deceiving me
The truth is plain for all to see
But I just went right on believing you
When no one else believed but me
I'll always be your fool
I'll always be your fool
When my best friends see me
I just turn my head away
But until the day you free me
This is all I've got to say
I'll always be your fool
I'll always be your fool
See the candle slowly burning
And it's burning for you
Burning for you
Burning for your love
I'll always be your fool
I'll always be your fool

 


MY BROTHER
He´s just a copy of his Father and Mother
You´d never notice him up against another
But this I´ve got to tell you my Brother
He´s the kind of guy who´ll take you in
But all he really wants to do is win
And after you´ve given him everything
He will try and bring you down
And he´ll lay you on the ground
So don´t let him get his way
Or you´ll be sorry someday
I took my guitar to a local dance
Asked the man there if he´d give a chance
Bu he just looked at me and smiled
Here´s what he said
I`d like to help ypu sonny all that I can
But first you got to sign this contract
Here in my hand, but I just told him no
That it wasn´t my scene
They will try and bring you down
And they´ll lay you on the ground
So don´t let them get their way
Or you´ll be sorry some day
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TIME
(J.Capaldi/P. Bonas)
Looking at the city, in all its nakedness.
Thinking what a pity. Thinking what a mess.
Stood by dirty waters. Lapping up the shore.
Wondering what eternity, has got me marked down for.
(CHORUS)
Time is running out.
Time is running out.
See the broken soldiers, lying on the beach.
Spirits torn and shattered, cause Heaven’s out of reach.
Little children crying hunger in their head.
Mother nature sits and stares surrounded by her dead.
(CHORUS)
Time is running out.
Time is running out.
Let's take those nice green fields and build some parking lots.
Give out lots of Green-Shield and plastic baby cots.
Cut down on your overheads by turning to computers.
And give out lots tickets for those cardboard cut-out commuters.
(CHORUS)
Time is running out.
Time is running out.
Oh what will you do
When time runs out on you.
(CHORUS)
Time is running out.
Time is running out.

 


LIVING ON THE OUTSIDE
(J. Capaldi)

Creepin down the alley, searchin through the trash
you used to own a chalet, before the market crashed.
Now your clothes are torn and dirty, and your face is looking mean
Valentino and Versace, it was such an ugly scene.
When you were living on the outside
the inside where you thought you had to be
but I'm living on the outside
the outside it don't bother me

It's a terrible obsession, trying to make it to the top
A man in your profession can't afford to be a flop
Gotta get yourself connected, get the mobile phone
You don't want to be rejected, you don't want to be alone
So you're living on the inside
the inside and all that money brings
but I'm living on the outside
the outside nobody pulls my strings

It's like the inquisition at the hottest club in town
there's so much competition tryin'to do each other down
No one's saying nothing and Madonna looks so cold
when you're to be natural it's hardest pose to hold
So you're living on the inside
the inside where everybody wants to be
but I'm living on the outside
outside where the air is free

They say the ice is melting and the earth is warming up
all the animals are dying don't know where it's gonna stop
You just look at you computer there's no need to be upset
You got virtual reality you're on the Internet
And you're living on the inside
the inside where you think you gotta be
but I'm living on the outside
the outside take a walk with me
take a walk with me

living on the outside take a walk with me
living on the outside take a walk with me
living on the outside
living on the outside

 

 

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